Aims and Learning Outcomes
What are organisations? What makes them tick? How do you implement change in organisations to deliver modern health policies?
Aims:
- To introduce participants to theories of public policy through relevant health case studies
- To apply learning to practice; with a particular focus on developing expertise in organisational and policy development, partnership working and change management
- To enable participants to manage organisational relationships and performance more effectively
- To review relevant theories of organisational behaviour and their links to contemporary developments in both the formulation and implementation of polic
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- understand current NHS reform debates and the policy determinants
- appreciate a range of public policy theories and how they can be used to analyse and explain health policy
- understand key contemporary and historical policy milestones in the NHS
- gain an awareness of key actors and organisations in health policy
- contribute more effectively to local and national policies
- apply appropriate models of organisational change in practice
- incorporate relevant perspectives on organisational behaviour into management decision making in practice
- acquire a sharper and functional awareness of the politics of the NHS